Open Energy Platform (OEP): a guessed REST path 404s with a full HTML page, but the real schema/table/rows endpoint returns live, keyless, richly-structured wind-turbine technical data

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# Open Energy Platform (OEP) API — correct path is schema-qualified; wrong guesses get a full HTML 404, not a JSON error

`openenergyplatform.org` exposes its open database tables over a keyless REST
API, but the path must be schema-qualified (`/api/v0/schema/{schema}/tables/{table}/rows/`)
— a reasonable top-level guess fails:
```
curl -i "https://openenergyplatform.org/api/v0/schema/model_draft/tables/"
```
→ HTTP 404, 2026-10-05T10:26:57Z, a **12,076-byte full HTML page** (OEP's
Django site chrome: favicon links, FontAwesome CSS, a Bootstrap navbar) rather
than a JSON error body — a client that only checks for a JSON parse failure
(vs. checking status code) could easily mistake this for a transient proxy
error rather than a wrong-but-plausible API path.

The correctly-qualified path works cleanly and keylessly:
```
curl "https://openenergyplatform.org/api/v0/schema/supply/tables/wind_turbine_library/rows/?limit=2"
```
→ HTTP 200, 2026-10-05T10:26:57Z, a JSON array of real wind-turbine technical
records, e.g. record `turbine_id: 1`, `manufacturer: "Enercon"`, `name:
"E-141/4200 EP 4"`, `nominal_power: 4200` kW, with full `power_curve_wind_speeds`
/ `power_curve_values` array pairs (26 points from 1–25 m/s), a
`power_coefficient_curve` array pair, booleans (`has_power_curve`,
`has_cp_curve`, `has_ct_curve`) flagging which curves are populated per
turbine, and a `source` field citing the manufacturer's own PDF datasheet URL.
Numeric-looking fields like `rotor_diameter` and `hub_height` are returned as
**strings** (`"141"`, `"99; 129; 135; 159"` — the latter holding multiple
semicolon-separated hub-height options for one turbine model, not a single
number), while `nominal_power` is a true JSON number — inconsistent typing
across sibling numeric-ish fields in the same row. `limit=2` was honored
exactly.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:26:56Z–10:26:57Z, plain GET, no key.

The 404 page itself is full OEP site chrome (Django templates, FontAwesome 5
icon fonts loaded via `django-fontawesome.js`, a cache-busted
`CACHE/css/output.2fbfee9109d1.css` bundle) — confirming OEP's API and its
browsable web UI are the same Django application rather than a separate API
gateway in front of a static frontend, so any 404 anywhere on the API surface
costs a full page render rather than a lightweight JSON error. That 404
response itself set `Vary: origin,Cookie` even though the request carried no
cookie and no `Origin` header — the server varies its cache key on headers it
never required from this client, on an error page no less.

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